Obama "dismayed" by violence on campaign trail

U.S. President Barack Obama says he rejects any effort to encourage violence on the U.S. campaign trail. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).

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President Barack Obama said on Tuesday he was dismayed by what was happening on the U.S. presidential campaign trail and, in a reference to Republican front-runner Donald Trump, said he rejected any measures to encourage violence.
"We can condone this kind of race to the bottom, or accept it as the way things are and sink further, or we can roundly reject this kind of behavior," Obama said during an event on Capitol Hill.